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Pakistanis) and well organised international
publicity.
(d) Action against Chinese officials in London
(c)
(f)
would be inadvisable.
Economic sanctions would be ineffective.
An interim reply should be given orally to the
Chinese statement of 8 March, referring only to
the importance of normal working conditions for
both our Missions. A substantivo reply should
await Chinese reactions to this, and to further
developments in Hong Kong.
(g) We should be ready at some stage to advise the
Secretary of State to send a personal mossage
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to Ch'on Ti. But the timing will present problems;
and it would probably be premature now.
Background (See also Annex A)
6. Our present round of troubles with the Chinese Government
dates from the overspill early last year of the "Cultural
Revolution" into Hong Kong. This involved firm police action
in Hong Kong, the arrest of troublemakers and the suspension
of some communist newspapers. The Chinese Government in Hay
presented us with a Note requiring us to accept "Five Demands"
notably the release of all political prisoners.
In July,
Mr. Grey, the Reuters correspondent, was placed under house
arrest in Feking in retaliation for the arrest of a New China
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